Coin holder



Patented Dec. 4, 1945 COIN HOLDER Max Cooper, Paterson, N. J.

Application March 4, 1944, Serial No. 525,009

3 Claims.

This invention contemplates the provision of a coin-holder comprising a holder proper or receiver and a coin-carrier movable in the receiver and into the same and that these parts shall be so coactive with each other that when the carrier, carrying a coin, has been moved into the receiver discharge of the coin from the carrier to the receiver will occur on the ensuing withdrawal of the carrier.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the device;

. Fig. 2 is a plan thereof, with the carrier in withdrawn position;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of the receiver, viewed 90 from its position in Fig. 1;

bottom end of the shell is closed by a removable cap 2, preferably screwed thereon. The upper end may be permanently closed, as by a cap 3 fitted into the shell and usually permanentlysecured thereto, as by cement or otherwise; the

latter cap is preferably formed separately from the shell in order to effect certain interior shaping of the upper end of the receiver as will hereinafter appear.

The shell has near its upper end an aperture here in the form of a horizontal slot 4 extending approximately through one-half of its circumference. Into this extends the coin-carrier 5 which here has a flat horizontal top surface 5a beveled at 517, remote from the aperture formed by the slot; in any event, at 50, inward of the aperture, a fulcrum for the coin exists. The under face 1' of cap 3 is inclined downwardly from a point relatively adjacent but suitably above the aperture 4 and thereby provides a surface 3a beyond said fulcrum relatively to the aperture which coacts'with the fulcrum to support the coin a in the tilted position shown in Fig. 4, or with its marginal portion adjacent the aperture above the same, the inclination of said face a: producing above the carrier and be tween said fulcrum and aperture a retreat space y for the tilted coin. Hence, if the carrier be withdrawn from its position shown by Fig. 4 the coin will be unshipped from the carrier to fall confined to move in a plane outwardly and inwardly through said aperture. So long as the coin is held tilted to the indicated position, thus to prevent its escape through the aperture when the carrier is withdrawn, it is not material how the fulcrum or how the retreat space is formed.

The carrier is generally a disk having its major portion, providing the surface 5a, of a greater diameter than its minor portion, providing the bevel 5b. By a pin 6 penetrating a pair of ears 1 on the shell and an ear 8 of the carrier between the ears 1 the carrier is pivoted to move in the said plane, to wit, so that its surface 5a is sufficiently spaced from the top margin of the slot or aperture to admit the coin between them. A flange or bead 9, wider than the slot so as to cover the same (Figs. 1 and 4), exists at the arcuate margin of the major disk portion. Abutment means that will cause the coin resting on 20 the carrier, when the latter is moved from the position of Fig. 2, to be fully within the shell when the carrier assumes the position of Fig. 4, is provided in the form of two lobes ID at the upper face of the carrier andadjoining the flange.

To introduce the coin it is placed on the carrier in prone state and the carrier swung inward to the position of Fig. 4, whereupon the coin (surface 3a being here inclined and hence a cam surface) will assume the dotted position therein shown so that on the next withdrawal of the carrier the coin will be unshipped from the carrier and fall into the receiver, as already described.

Of course a fulcrum would exist at 50 if the minor portion of the carrier were removed.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is:

1. Th combination, with a hollow receiver having a coin-receiving space and an aperture extending laterally from said space to .the exterior of the receiver, of a coin carrier in said space and withdrawable therefrom through the aperture and confined by thereceiver during such withdrawal to move in a plane and on which carrier a coin is adapted to be supported wholly within said space, said carrier having a coin fulcrum inward of the aperture and said receiver having a downwardly facing surface inward of the aperture further than said fulcrum and coactive with the latter to maintain the coin tilted to the position in which its margin adjacent said aperture will be above the latter, whereby when the carrier is retracted through the aperture the into the receiver. The carrier, as will ppear. is coin will be unshipped therefrom, and said receiver providing above the carrier a retreat space for the coin as so tilted.

2. The combination set forth in claim 1 characterized by the carrier being pivoted on the receiver.

3. The combination, with a hollow receiver having a coin-receiving space and an aperture extending laterally from said space to the exterior of the receiver, of a coin carrier on which a coin is adapted; to be supported in prone state and being movable through said aperture to a. position in which the coin will then be wholly within said space and being confined by the receiver to move in a plane through said aperture,

said carrier having a coin fulcrum arranged to be inward of the aperture when the carrier assumes said position and means, outward of the fulcrum, to abut the coin margin and said receiver having a downwardly facing cam surface inward of the aperture further than said fulcrum when the carrier assumes said position and 'said. surface being coactive with the fulcrum thereupon to tilt the coin to the position in which its relatively outer marginal portion will be above the aperture, and said receiver providing above the carrier a retreat space for the coin when sotilted.

MAX COOPER. 

